CLAIMS OF THE UNEMPLOYED.
Work should be supplied by the State where it is quite evident that it cannot be obtained from private employers, and only given to men who have no means of supporting themselves during a period of enforced idleness. The wages should be merely sufficient to provide what may be all included in the expression, the necessaries of life, so that the rates ruling in the labour market should be as little as possible interfered with. If the State go beyond this it exceeds its functions, and harm instead of good will be sure to result. Of course we are supposing the work to bo created for the occasion, and hot to be such as would have been undertaken had there been no distress at all. This course is what the present Government have very wisely adopted, and we are satisfied that after the lapse of a few months at the furthest, the scarcity of work will in a great measure have passed away, and every man of ordinary intelligence . and physical strength will bo able to get work at reasonable wages froin private employers. — Chronicle.
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Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 530, 8 June 1880, Page 2
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